Hilary Knight's The owl and the pussy-cat: Based on the poem by Edward Lear

edward lear hilary knight

The irresistible blend of romance and nonsense in Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" has made it a classic enjoyed by generations of young listeners. Now celebrated artist Hilary Knight wraps Lear's beloved verse in a richly imagined fantasy where two young listeners find themselves magically transformed and transported to the land where the Bong-tree grows.

Come sail away with them.

Genres poetrypicture bookschildrensanimalsfictionclassicscatsfantasyromanceadventure

null pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1871

Literary awards

governor generals literary awards / prix littéraires du gouverneur général,

This edition

Format: null pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1983 by Macmillan
ISBN: 9780027509007
ASIN: 0027509001
Language: English

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About the author

edward lear

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems.
As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.